I've run various terminals and even cut down distros on Android since all the way back in the Android 2.1 era. Maybe people have simply forgotten, maybe they don't care because they're stuck inside Apple's ecosystem, but there's nothing new here.
The biggest news is that Google is actually trying to cut down on running downloadable executables for security reasons, which is one of the reasons why the Termux release on Google Play can't be updated anymore. The devs would be required to target modern Android, which would drop all compatibility workarounds, which would break running most executables these tools provide. Luckily, the F-Droid version still remains usable.
